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The Virginia Museum of History and Culture founded in 1831 as the Virginia Historical and Philosophical Society and headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, is a major repository, research, and teaching center for Virginia history. It is a private, non-profit organization, supported almost entirely by private contributions.
Fredericksburg Area Museum & Cultural Center: Fredericksburg: Fredericksburg: Northern: Local history: website, city and area history and culture, art exhibits Freedom House Museum: Alexandria: Alexandria: Northern: African American: Operated by the Northern Virginia Urban League in a slave-trading depot, history of area slavery Freeman Store ...
The Kluge-Ruhe Collection aims to expand knowledge and understanding of Indigenous Australian art and culture to cultivate greater appreciation of human diversity and creativity. One of its core institutional priorities is to build and sustain collaborative relationships to deepen their impact and extend their reach with the Indigenous people ...
Cape Charles Museum and Welcome Center; Carroll County Courthouse (Virginia) Cathedral of the Sacred Heart (Richmond, Virginia) Centre Hill Museum; Christ Church (Lancaster County, Virginia) Chrysler Museum of Art
Wolf Creek Indian Village and Museum is a reconstruction of a Native American village, approximately dating from 1480-1520. The ethnicity of the Native Americans who lived in the village is unknown. They could have been Cherokee, or one of the Siouan languages tribes that frequented the area.
In 2021, it was rated the best museum in the Shenandoah Valley by Virginia Living [5] and by the Daily News-Record. [6] The house later known as the Worcestershire House was a very old house in Hartlebury, England, dismantled and re-assembled at the Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia, in 1992. The John Smith (Smyth or Smythe) family built it ...
The Thunderbird Archaeological District, near Limeton, Virginia, is an archaeological district described as consisting of "three sites—Thunderbird Site, the Fifty Site, and the Fifty Bog—which provide a stratified cultural sequence spanning Paleo-Indian cultures through the end of Early Archaic times with scattered evidence of later occupation."
The Science Museum of Virginia is one of the popular museums in Richmond, Virginia. The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities works to improve commonwealth's civic, cultural, and intellectual life. [13] The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is a state-funded museum with the largest collection of Fabergé eggs outside of Russia. [14]